Illegal Rent Increases

In the Bay Area's highly competitive rental market, cities like San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley offer some of the strongest tenant protections in the country. Rent control ordinances are meant to preserve housing affordability and prevent displacement, but not all...

It was the apartment of your dreams, so you signed the lease without giving it much thought. But now there are problems. And you don’t know what to do. Afterall, you signed the lease and now you have no choice....

If you have rent control your landlord can't give you a rent increase above two or three percent a year right? Not exactly. Enter Rent Board Rules and Regulations Section 1.21 . Section 1.21 allows a landlord to raise a...

A common question we get from tenants is whether or not they have to sign a new lease. Depending on the situation, signing a new lease may be obligatory, or it may be completely inappropriate. In this article, we discuss...

Rent control is a huge benefit for tenants. However, there are some master tenants who take advantage of the high cost of rent in the Bay Area by overcharging roommates. While some tenants may feel they have a right to...

Depending on your lease (or lack thereof), your rights in relation to your landlord and housemates might vary a great deal. There are a number of different dynamics that come up in landlord/tenant situations and each one carries with it...